LMFAO geez Frannie is obsessed just like she is obsessed with me 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Who knows if there will be a final agreement. But if there is, two things will be true at the same time:

a) It's essentially surrender to Iran.

b) We should be glad about it, because every day this insane, illegal war continues, we get weaker.

1/ Let me explain.

2/ An end to this disastrous war is a good thing - no matter the humiliating terms. Because every day it continues, our nation gets weaker, costs keep going up, Iran gets stronger, and Trump gets further from accomplishing his goals.

More war would just make things worse.

3/ But make no mistake: these are Iran's terms. They made one single concession - opening the Strait. And it's not even a concession because the Strait was open before the war!

And now that Iran has proven that the U.S. can't stop them from closing it, their power expands.

@TuktikLiza.
@INTERPOLITEX.
Am having an idea.
Minidrones.
equipped with one shot of novichok 437
one spy has a casket, opens it, the minidrone takes off, autonomously flies to the target, delivers the shot, flies on to the landing casket of another spy
leaves no traces
and minidrones are valuable
the victim, if it feels the drop in the face, most likely only instinctively wipes the drop off, then the good new superfluid novichok 437 is distributed on the cheek plus the hand
so that it gets absorbed faster by the skin
but if the victim doesn't react the drop on the face will also go into its bloodstream
@MariaSharapova.
you should also know a little about our poison arsenal
being president and so
Ерих Тсар
гет инто ацтион
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@anna_veith.
if you seriously think about my job offer as chief of all RSS then fyi
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@JLipnitskayaa.
our weapon inventer ?
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@TuktikLiza @INTERPOLITEX maybe you can invent something like insect wings to propel it
this way it would be quite stealthy

@TuktikLiza @INTERPOLITEX music for the occasion
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🚨 THREAD: What do Mike Pence, Mike Pompeo, John Bolton, and Elaine Chao have in common? They were all paid by a Marxist-Islamist Iran group that was designated as terrorist until 2012.

No, this is not a joke.

Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) was founded by leftist Islamists to oppose the western-backed Pahlavi, and participated in his 1979 overthrow. Khomeini barred MEK afterwards. MEK was implicated in multiple bombings, including that of Americans, and remained an openly armed group until 2003.

Since they got de-listed as a terrorist organization in 2012 on procedural grounds, MEK and their fronts have been actively recruiting US politicians selling themselves as a moderate alternative to Khomeini. But RAND Corporation says MEK meets the qualifications for a cult, citing criteria such as forcing their members to work 16+ hour days and forced divorces.

Polls of the Iranian-American community shows that they do NOT accept Rajavi, MeK's leader, as legitimate, with a 46-point net disapproval - numbers nearly as bad as the existing regime.

As Pence's former Chief of Staff, Marc Short, has already weighed against Trump deal, it's helpful to recall this.

Receipts below. As always, patience as I pull the thread together.👇

In an interview with @ItsYourGov , National Council of Resistance of Iran director and MeK representative Alireza Jafarzadeh was asked directly: "Is your group involved in any sort of lobbying or payments for speeches to prominent individuals such as Mike Pompeo?"

NCRI-US said "absolutely not."

@ItsYourGov Jafarzadeh is the registrant contact on FARA Registration #6171 for NCRI-US for Iran, on behalf of MeK.

As many of my elder cousins approach a landmark, and to coincide with this interesting article i came across just now:

Homam, Hormones and Hospitality -
One couple turns Eighty; everyone else turns hysterical!!!!

There comes a point in every Tamil family when someone casually says, “Next year Appa turns eighty. We should do something simple.”
That phrase — SOMETHING SIMPLE— is the emotional equivalent of lighting a camphor flame inside a gas cylinder.

A Sadabhishegam, for the uninitiated, is an elaborate Tamil Brahmin celebration marking eighty years of survival through filter coffee, family politics and cholesterol. The elderly couple are bathed in blessings, flowers, mantras and most importantly, unsolicited advice.
Organising a Sadabhishegam is not an event. It is a live-action psychological experiment involving elderly emotions, middle-aged egos, sleep deprivation, silk sarees, and dehydration.
The real heat does not come from the rituals. It comes from people. Tiny issues suddenly acquire the emotional intensity of international border disputes.

** Venue - The first battle of the campaign. Every family member has a completely different opinion.
The sentimental faction wants the native place. This sounds beautiful until you remember that the nearest railway station is forty kilometres away, the roads resemble archaeological sites, and the guest accommodation consists of one lodge and an optimistic ceiling fan. The spiritual faction wants a famous temple town. An excellent idea in theory. Until someone points out that the temple has 4 a.m. rituals and enough summer heat to test the limits of human devotion.
The practical faction wants a venue near everyone's current residence.
Every proposed venue has a fatal flaw.
At this point, the first available venue starts looking divinely ordained. Because in Tamil families, selecting the venue is not merely a logistical decision.It is the ceremonial opening event of the function itself.

**Then comes the guest list....
This is where civilisation begins to crumble. Tamil family invitations are less about affection and more about historical record-keeping.
“We must invite them,” your parents' insist. "But, they haven’t spoken to us since 1998!!! ” “It doesn't look good..you cannot call THESE people and not call THOSE people"..
The new generation wants an 'intimate, personal gathering' while the old couple insist on inviting every second person they meet on the streets.

Then there are the dangerous categories:
*People who MUST receive printed invitations.
*People offended by WhatsApp invitations.
*People offended because they didn't get a personal call/visit.
*People who will not come but will still analyse the font size and tell you about grammatical errors in the invite...
And inevitably, one crucial relative gets missed. The discovery happens exactly two days before the function!!!

**Meanwhile, the parents — the actual eighty-year-olds — become unexpectedly energetic and impossible just before the festivities.
The father wants all his impractical suggestions implemented. The mother, who normally forgets where she kept her spectacles, now remembers every single person from the Chola dynasty.

**Then comes the menu discussion - Tamil function menus are treated with the seriousness of Indo-US nuclear negotiations. Every menu discussion becomes philosophical. The cook is the supreme commander with the negotiating power of an oil-producing nation. Gas cylinder charges materialise from another dimension... And God help you if you underestimate filter coffee. In Tamil Nadu, coffee shortages during a function can legally qualify as civil unrest.

**Then come the return gifts.
This innocent tradition has now evolved into corporate gifting warfare. "This gift is too ordinary"... "That gift - budget is too high"...."THEY gave brass lamps at their function. We can't give the same." No one is happy with anything.
Finally you settle on different gifts for the various

age groups along with tamboolam bags filled with sweets, coconuts and emotional exhaustion.
At this point, you are ready to break a coconut over your own head.

**All this, while you yourself are operating on four hours of sleep, fluctuating hormones, acidity, rising sugar levels, and a knee that has started making faint percussion sounds while climbing stairs.

**But Tamil middle-aged daughters and daughters in law are expected to function like ISRO scientists with a Phd in people management. They are - chief organisers, unpaid therapists, and collapsing mammals — running around holding safety pins, cash, room keys, receipts, and their rapidly disappearing sanity.

**And all this unfolds in the glorious South Indian summer. Forty-five degrees outside.
But Tamil family functions have a strict dress code rooted in the belief that suffering increases auspiciousness.
So everyone arrives draped in full Kanchipuram and Banarasi silk, like heavily decorated festive upholstery; temple jewellery, flowers, bangles and approximately three kilograms of accumulated humidity.

**On function day, chaos blooms beautifully.
One uncle arrives four hours early. Another family arrives after lunch and asks, “Any tiffin available?” Children run around like escaped goats. Someone loses footwear. Someone loses temper.
And hovering majestically over all these are the snooty relatives. Tamil families always produce at least three people whose sole purpose is criticism. "The kajus in the pongal were slightly stale"... "No nadaswaram arrangements?"...These people contribute nothing except oxygen consumption and commentary.

** And the tempers. Oh, the tempers!!
Lack of sleep, excessive heat, delayed coffee, fluctuating sugar levels, and suppressed family history combine into one explosive cultural cocktail.

**No family function is complete without discovering entirely new ways for money to leave your account. Initially, you sit confidently with an Excel sheet. Everything seems manageable...Then the hidden expenses emerge one by one like villains in a Rajinikanth flashback sequence. You keep paying advances that vanish instantly into the cosmic void.

**Accommodation for outstation guests becomes another emotional black hole. Each guest arrives with invisible requirements.
One wants ground-floor rooms. One cannot manage Indian toilets. One needs only “light diabetic tiffin at night.” One uncle snores like a malfunctioning temple loudspeaker and must therefore be strategically isolated.
By now your savings account resembles a drought-hit lake. Yet expenses continue breeding overnight.
** Meanwhile every elder relative casually says: “Money comes and goes. These occasions are important.”
Yes. Money certainly goes. That part has become very clear.

** And through all this, you continue smiling politely while internally calculating how many months you can survive on upma and curd rice after the function.

**Just when you think the function is finally over, Tamil hospitality unveils its final boss level - packed food for the return journey....Because no relative in the history of South India has ever been allowed to leave empty-handed. Packets must be prepared for:
-train travellers,
-flight travellers,
-diabetic travellers....
Disposable containers emerge from nowhere...And the quantities. Good Lord, the quantities.
Tamil families pack food for journeys with the optimism of people preparing for exile.. “What if the train gets delayed?”

**Yet somehow, amid the confusion, something magical happens.
-Your feet are swollen.
-Your bank account is in intensive care.
-Your patience has gone to meet the ancestors.

---But then you look at your parents.
Eighty years old. Sitting side by side.
Tired… but glowing and happy.
**The father, who nearly started a civil war over invitation lists and spent half the function complaining about fan placement, is suddenly smiling like a new bridegroom.
The mother, is quietly touching every return gift bag to

ensure nobody leaves empty-handed.
They have survived eight decades, three generations, inflation, power cuts, family feuds, and the invention of social media.
Around them stand children, grandchildren, cousins, old friends, surviving siblings — living proof of eight decades of stubborn continuity.
Old friends arrive. Someone tears up during the blessings. Someone laughs remembering stories from forty years ago.
And for one brief moment, you realise why Tamil families continue these impractical celebrations.

Not because they are easy. Certainly not because they are affordable. And definitely not because anyone remains mentally stable throughout.
** But because underneath the criticism, drama, passive aggression, and twenty-seven varieties of stress, there remains an old stubborn love.
A noisy, exhausting, overfed, emotionally manipulative love. Somewhere between the homam smoke, the jasmine flowers, the unpaid bills, the emotional meltdowns and the fourth round of filter coffee, there exists something deeply human:

The stubborn insistence that people must show up for one another. People who fought. People who drifted apart. People who judged each other’s sambhar consistency for forty years.
** It is about cousins who barely meet anymore suddenly laughing together over coffee. About old siblings remembering childhood stories before memory itself becomes unreliable.

About grandchildren seeing their grandparents not as old people in one corner of the house, but as the centre of an entire history.
** All standing together for one fleeting afternoon because two people stayed married long enough to become family history.
** Because one day, the chairs will be empty. The phone calls will stop. The silk sarees will remain folded in cupboards. And the people who irritated us beyond endurance will become the very people we ache to hear once more.

**So we gather. We feed. We complain. We overspend. We survive the relatives. And we create one more memory large enough to outlive all of us.

That’s how these occasions survive — first as stress, then as comedy, and finally as family folklore.

@CultureeGuard @JonYaniv @Cdnwatcher @threadreaderapp @SurreyRCMP @surreyps @LangleyRCMP @ChrisPentecos @Nncim15 @Ilovecanada13 @HarperMonste @facepalmchris @trustednerd @felixcruggins @CultureGuard @WaxMyBallsShow @FranLa9 @kfurneaux23 @VernThurston We should whip our dicks out in front of Ladybug Farms!!! It’s a good way to get more visitors to the petting zoo (literally)

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1/12 Something has bothered me for years about how we talk about statins.
After a heart attack, NICE recommends high-intensity statin therapy, usually Atorvastatin 80mg. It has become so routine that few stop to ask what the drug is doing beyond lowering cholesterol.
/2

2/12 The assumption is simple:- lower cholesterol equals lower risk, therefore more intensive lowering must be better. If only it was that simple. Statins inhibit HMG-CoA reductase, a key enzyme in the mevalonate pathway. This is often described as the cholesterol pathway, /3

3/12 but cholesterol is only one of its products.
This pathway also produces CoQ10, dolichols, and isoprenoids such as farnesyl and geranylgeranyl pyrophosphate, which are involved in mitochondrial function, cellular signalling, and energy metabolism.
/4

If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this.

Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how.

Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:

Google automatically turned on AI features in Gmail, Chat, and Meet for many users in late 2025.

These features can read your emails, messages, and attachments to create summaries and suggestions.

Google says your emails don't train Gemini, but some users say they never clearly agreed to these AI features being enabled.

Unless you turn them off, the AI can still analyze your inbox to provide these features.

1. The Main Switch

This is the main setting Google shows you, but it's not the only one.

Gmail (Desktop):

⚙️ Settings → See all settings → Smart features and personalization → Uncheck "Turn on smart features in Gmail, Chat, and Meet" → Save Changes.

Venezuela’s $170 billion debt is twice the size of its economy and 10 times its 2025 oil revenues.

This is why investment banks are lining up to take one of the most complex sovereign debt restructurings in the world.

But behind these $170 billion, there is a lot to unpack 🧵

https://twitter.com/OrlvndoA/status/2066186718374469938

First of all, the number:

Where does $170 billion come from?

1st) The Chavez administration consistently running budget deficits to sustain its web of populism, despite receiving $800 billion in oil revenues.

2nd) International arbitration cases against Venezuela.

Now let's compare Venezuela's liabilities with its finances:

Venezuela's 2025 GDP is $83 billion (IMFNews), and the country's 2025 oil ​exports revenues were $18.2 billion.

Venezuela's reported debt is therefore 200% of its GDP and 1000% its 2025 oil exports.

Thread with excerpts from the colonial Mexico portion of "Fire and Blood: A History of Mexico" (1973).

The Catholic Monarchs who united Spain reined in the aristocracy, abolished serfdom, disempowered the Castilian parliaments, and ended all noble presumptions to royal powers and revenues, creating a new bureaucracy (with a new army) to run the state loyal to themselves.

Spain combined this modern bureaucratic state and army with maintenance of privileges for the old nobility and an almost medieval religious mindset.

I have been studying the science of manifestation for over two decades.

Ancient texts. Quantum physics. Neuroscience. Mystery school teachings.

And the number one reason most people never manifest what they truly want has nothing to do with their goals, their vision boards, or how hard they want it.

It has everything to do with the myths they were sold about how manifestation actually works.

Here are 10 of them:

Myth 1: Manifestation is about positive thinking.

This is the most damaging myth in the entire conversation.

Positive thinking is surface level.
It operates in the conscious mind which controls only about 5% of your behavior and perception.

The other 95% is driven by your subconscious programming.

And your subconscious does not respond to positive thoughts layered on top of deep rooted beliefs of unworthiness, scarcity, and fear.

It responds to what it genuinely believes to be true about you and the world.

Ancient initiates did not practice positive thinking.
They practiced subconscious reprogramming.
There is a massive difference.

Myth 2: You just need to want it badly enough.
I spent years believing this.

The truth is that desire alone is one of the weakest manifestation forces available to you.

Why?
Because desire comes from a place of not having.
And the subconscious mind that is calibrated to not having will keep recreating the experience of not having no matter how badly you want something different.

The ancient law of vibration does not respond to how much you want something.

It responds to what you are.

Stop wanting more. Start becoming more.
That is where manifestation begins.

@LauraLoomer @DNIGabbard @TulsiGabbard Victoria Nuland confirmed it in her 2022 testimony to the Senate Foreign Relation Committee hearing on Ukraine.

Just because it was a Russian talking point does not mean it it’s false.

👇 See article containing actual video in the replies below.

@LauraLoomer @DNIGabbard @TulsiGabbard

@ggreenwaldopen.substack.com/pub/greenwald/…

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@ggreenwald

WTF?

I just posted @ggreenwald’s 2021 Substack article containing video of Victoria Nuland confirming the existence of biolabs in Ukraine, but the video in his article became “unavailable” less than 15 minutes after I posted my comment.